Daphna Oren

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Historian of Early Modern Britain, History of women, the family, gender, medicine. Program manager for the Dan David Prize. All opinions are my own. She/her.
Work Websitehttps://dandavidprize.org/
Personal Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/daphnaorenmagidor/
Daphna OrenNov 28, 2022
Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.Nov 28, 2022
I like that I’m engaging and meeting new folks on here. But when people have absolutely blank profiles I don’t follow back. So fill out a profile?
Daphna OrenNov 27, 2022
Maggie MacIntyreNov 27, 2022

Good morning! A post just rolled across my fedi-timeline saying not to post about politics on Mastodon, so I'm here to remind you that:

1 "politics" refers to decision-making about how to live together in groups
2 choosing to not participate in political discussion is saying you support the status quo, and is a political stance
3 abstaining from politics because you feel safe from its impacts is a privilege and a choice to abandon your more vulnerable neighbours

Daphna OrenNov 27, 2022

Do you like #Archaeology and #puns or #WordGames?

We're looking for funny things that can be put on a onesie for the baby of an archaeologist dad, that are somehow jokes about archaeology and parenting.

So far the best we've got is "I dig my dad", so anything better will be helpful!

Daphna OrenNov 25, 2022
Kim TodziNov 25, 2022
I know some people find acknowledgements in books silly, clichéd and boring. But I always read them first. They are one of the rare moments in academic works where you don't just hear the academic voice, but something personal comes out. Moreover, some of the relationships become visible that make such an achievement possible in the first place. Books are social things.
Daphna OrenNov 24, 2022

It's been a difficult week, both because geopolitics impacted on my life in a minor, but very personal way - and because it's been the kind of work week that has me still at my desk at 10:30 PM on the last work day of the week.

But - I got to do one of my absolute favorite things about my job, which is to read a lot of really really interesting research by amazing historians and archaeologists, in fields ranging from the prehistoric to the almost-contemporary. There are so many incredible people out there working on so many fascinating topics. I'm really glad to be a part of this.

Daphna OrenNov 21, 2022
10 Year Old's assessment of the movie: "It's cool that they have a girl Black Panther, although they could have done more with her. Also, it was kind of awesome in the beginning when Marvel did all of these villains who weren't actually evil and mostly wanted to make the world a better place in their own - possibly misguided - way, but now I kind of miss having the occasional bad guy who is *actually* bad."
Daphna OrenNov 18, 2022
Richard LittlerNov 18, 2022
People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
Daphna OrenNov 18, 2022
Joshua WoodNov 8, 2022
If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Daphna OrenNov 18, 2022
varsha the hot dam historianNov 18, 2022
so obviously i'm sad twitter died, mainly because i got a lot of my indexing jobs that way, so if you need to have a book indexed, hire me! (please reblog this academics)
Daphna OrenNov 17, 2022
I'm probably dating myself with this, but I just realized that the energy on #Mastodon right now reminds me of the early days of Geocities, when you would choose which "city" to set up your website so that it would be with "like minded" websites, and then you'd set up your page and it would always start with an introduction.